Be supporting our budget come june. With the councils permission, what i would like to do is agenda i was and item on the june mdc meeting to really go into greater detail about the ada transition plan. What weve accomplished so far as well as what we still need to do and when we think well be finished with that. My next item is to talk about our mod office. I wanted to provide a brief update on the remodeling work at our office at 1155 market street. Awe you know weve been at the center of an active construction site for most of the last year. Our building facade has scaffold which makes it difficult for people to find us. We had a construction barrier out front which made it difficult for people who are blind and low vision to navigate around that and our lobby had a construction did you tunnel in place. It hasnt been very easy on us this last year. We had to move out of our office because we got dusted out because of construction work and we got to listen to jack hammers and screw g
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Service complaints about muni drivers and taxi drivers not accepting debit cards as form of payment. We were also made aware of by sf mta that the current contract is under noithsz with negotiations with the drivers. Both parties are had at work with the strike. If this occurs there is transportation available for medical appointments. If a strike would happen, information provided on the para transit website at wchlt website at wchlt sf para transit dom. Com. Www. Paratransit. Com. Through the trip info automated phone system to pair a transit kathy n entrance can transit can ustomers. Call 4153517052. The number is 4153517052. This past month there has been an increase this calls regarding issues around Effective Communication for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. We provided a lot of Technical Assistance to departments and public accommodations about the necessity and legal requirement to provide Effective Communication in their services and programs. Joanna federal of our of
Chart that i am displaying here is the Unemployment Rate that i am comparing to in the nondisabled community is also not seasonably adjusted so we are comparing apple to apples here. And so moving along, an issue that was touched on before, is the labor force, Participation Rate. And what is that . And that, in a nutshell is the number of people that are either employed, or two, actively looking for a job. And the Unemployment Rate is calculated from the Labor Force Participation rate. And so it is not the entire it is not the entire population, as a percentage of people that are not employed, it is just the people that are actively in the job hunt or actively employed. And so, just for comparison sake, and the yearly data from 2013, shows that the Labor Force Participation rate and the Disability Community was on average, 20. 3 percent. Now if you are like me, that sounds really bad. And to compare that the labor rate for the nondisabled community for the same period was 68. 9 percent
Types of interventions. As tensions grow between britain and china the uk is expected to announce its suspending its extradition treaty with hong kong. The parents of a student who took her own life in 2018 are suing Bristol University in whats thought to be the first case of its kind. If you are getting in touch with us today, send me a message on twitter or on our website. Also coming up this hour. An Historic Mission to mars is under way the first attempt by the United Arab Emirates to reach the red planet. Good morning. The government has signed deals for 90 million doses of Coronavirus Vaccine developed overseas. One of them is with a partnership between the german and us pharmaceutical giants biontech and pfizer. Its vaccine produced a strong immune response in early trials. If successful, the first of 30 million doses could arrive by the end of the year. The other deal is with the french firm valneva, which wont begin trials of its jab until the autumn. That agreement is for 60